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Re:The Making of Lemmings by ekianjo on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:10AM (#9684938)
> Two player lemmings was crazy

Yeah it was great on the Amiga! Not sure if it worked well on other machines where you could not connect more than a mouse, though !

Re:The Making of Lemmings by maggit on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:39AM (#9685007)
I remember it was possible to play Settlers 2 in two-player split screen with two mice in DOS, and it seems possible to recreate in Dosbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfpx0siF5TU

If I remember correctly, the trick here was to not start the mouse driver (mouse.com), but let Settlers' internal mouse driver have control :)

I have no idea about two player Lemmings in DOS. I have never played it, at least.

Re:The Making of Lemmings by jbattle on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:46AM (#9686207)
that's pretty wild - the game shipped it's own custom mouse driver?
Re:The Making of Lemmings by Drdrdrq on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:34AM (#9686521)
Well, define "driver"... This was DOS, so you had to listen to interrupts to catch mouse events. It was more or less standard though, if my memory serves me correctly.
Re:The Making of Lemmings by nopakos on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:29AM (#9685456)
On an Atari ST we were playing with a mouse and a joystick. Still a great experience!
Re:The Making of Lemmings by ekianjo on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:32AM (#9685479)
unfair advantage for the mouse guy ? :)
Re:The Making of Lemmings by nopakos on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:41AM (#9685525)
I remember it as one of the best two player games ever, so I guess, given enough time we could master anything :)
Re:The Making of Lemmings by SFjulie1 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:47AM (#9685554)
I played lemmings on my HP48SX... it worked fine :)